no60every trueheartbeat

LIIV/SEMPER/OJASOO/TROUPE

Every True Heartbeat" was inspired by Juhan Liiv’s poetry. This is
not, however, a play about Juhan Liiv’s life. It is also not a play
where the actors illustrate Juhan Liiv’s poetry. It is a play for which
those feelings, emotions, thoughts and images that Liiv used have been
very important. Yet this is not because of poetry itself. Those emotions
and images have been significant in the context of the present day.
Yes, it seems to us that Liiv’s poetry speaks of the world of
contemporary people: their worries, hopes, fears, doubts, feelings of
happiness.

Yet this play does not exclusively approach Liiv’s
poetry thematically. “Something else” was important in creating the
scenes. Namely, much has been said about how people have nowadays become
indifferent: the conditions of everyday life, job responsibilities,
different routines of private life fill their daily lives, to say
nothing of the deluge of information and the Angsts of recent times that
engulf them. This is why contemporary theatre and art dig ever more
frequently where it might still be possible to find a lucid moment.
Someplace from where we could see the emotional foundation of our lives,
even if just for a moment. One true heartbeat. Those are the heartbeats
we want to hear on stage.

This play does not tell a story with a
beginning and an end. A series of emotional moments strung next to each
other like wild strawberries on a stalk of hay forms the whole in this
instance. The energy of the actors is also not aimed at personifying any
particular “character”. They play someone who is very close to them and
their energy is aimed at creating different moments that rapidly
alternate. These moments are fragile, radiant, sad, vigorous, funny. Yet
neither those moments nor the people in them are supernatural, literary
or employ dramaturgical devices. No. Why? Those moments have been
sought and found in the banal everyday life of our lives, from among and
around ourselves in order to then densify, densify, densify those
moments and people. Why? Because theatre cannot be larger than life. And
the most beautiful moments on stage are when our life is successfully
shown, felt and understood in densified form. In the kind of form that
what was previously banal is now suddenly abstract and poetic.

This
is a play that uses those means and possibilities that are only
possible in theatre. Yet no, this is not an “experiment” or a
“laboratory”. The audience is not provoked and the limits of its
endurance are not tested.If actually.If encounters with genuine moments are not actually all that.

P.S.
One marketing portal asked us what this play’s target group is. All
people who feel that everything their lives consist of is not enough,
and who are looking for the chance to experience, feel and see something
that pulsates deep in the heart of our lives.